We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long …

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of … developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to … high-productivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been …

, especially efforts to raise the rate of investment. Recent studies of economic growth have raised a debate over the role played … by the investment rate in the long-run performance of the economy. Evidence from the states suggests that the effects of … indicate a substantial role for human capital accumulation in raising productivity, in contrast to the neoclassical focus on …

. We use the theory to compare current accounting measures for labor productivity and investment with the corresponding … understate the boom in productivity and investment … 1990s, provided that variations in population growth, depreciation rates, total factor productivity, and taxes are …

-open-economy real-business-cycle model driven by nonstationary productivity shocks. We find that the RBC model does a poor job at … business cycles in emerging markets and, importantly, assigns a negligible role to nonstationary productivity shocks …

product devoted to investment in computers, telecommunications equipment, and software rose sharply after 1995. The … contribution of total factor productivity growth from the IT sector in Japan also increased, while the contributions of labor input … and productivity growth from the Non-IT sector lagged far behind the United States. Our projection of potential economic …

and investment, we are able to capture many of the key empirical properties of Germany and Japan's postwar transitions …, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the … capital-output ratio, rising rates of investment and employment, and moderate rates of return to capital …

United States, I find no econometric evidence that computer investment is positively linked to TFP growth (over and above its … is positively related to industry productivity growth. The effects are very modest -- adding at most 0.07 percentage … points to annual labor productivity growth …